Jean Anouilh Art Quotations

The true masters of the art of living are already happy...

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

The object of art is to give life shape.

Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth.

One can make one's life a complete misery, worrying about burglaries and shipwrecks, but ask anyone, anyone you know ... earth-shattering disasters and fabulous inheritances all seems to take place exclusively in the newspapers.

Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice.

Death has to be waiting at the end of the ride before you truly see the earth, and feel your heart, and love the world.